I'm BACK

[Pretender]

Yeah, back to cracking RC5. I got my CPU (PIII-650, thinking of o/c'ing to 866) temp while working down to about 130F, although it's still high, I'll leave it on 24/7 cracking. I've got 2 questions:

1) I'm thinking of using my old Celery 300 running just to crack for RC5. However, it can't access the internet (no network card, leaving it connected to the net with a modem would tie up my phone line, hence nullifying the purpose of me having dsl). I was wondering if it's possible to get maybe 5 days worth of work units, and copy them to my other computer using floppy disk or CD.

2) Is 130F (or 105-110F when idle) normal temperature for a PIII chip at default (1.65) voltage, or is it high?

 

[DanC]

Any block is a block for TA. Welcome back!

 

[Deeko]

As to the first question, yes it's possible. Goto configure, then buffer options, and goto fetch time threshold. The bigger the number, the more it will download. The just copy the buff-in file to the computer without the connection.

 

[Pretender]

If i do that, however, then the buff-in file on both computers will be the same, hence they'll both be cracking the same thing.

 

[Engineer]

Actually, you move the Buff-in to the computer that is offline. To flush, you can flush your computer that is online first, then move the buff-out to it from the computer that is offline...Then re-flush...Re-fetch...Start over!!!

 

[Pretender]

Alright, if I understand correctly....

a) fetch packets on main system
b) copy buff-in to secondary system, and remove it from the main system
c) fetch packets for main system to work on
when secondary system is done with it's packets:
d) flush buffers on main system
e) move buff-out from secondary system back to main system
f) flush/fetch on main system


Will this work?

 

[Engineer]

YES!!!! I do it on several laptops all the time!!



Oh, and if you need to "add" blocks to the OFFLINE system without first flushing it, you can import a buff-in file from a floppy (or a temp directory: Do not copy it over the original buff-in if you want to add to it) by using the dnetc -import A:buff-in.rc5
or wherever the file is (A: or C: or wherever)...

This will take the current buff-in.rc5 and add the contents of the other file (-imported) to it. You can get several thousand blocks that way for extended cracking

 

[SSP]

leaving it connected to the net with a modem would tie up my phone line

You only need to connect for a minute. You can get those free net accounts, and use it once a day. This is what I do with my second system. It takes about 30-40 seconds to connect, flush and fetch work units.

Or you can do it the hard way (what the others recommended).

 

[Engineer]

Oh, and what SSP said.....Sometimes the easy way is right under your nose so far, you can't see it

 

[SSP]

yeah

whoa! I'm a golden member... U 2 Engineer.

 

[Viztech]

Gee, I knew there was a good reason to not throw away all those 14,400 modems.

Welcome home

viz

 

[JWMiddleton]

Pretender: 130f is high, but within the specs of the chip. I have a PIII-650e (cA0 stepping) that maxes out at 820 MHz. When I first installed it the temp went up to 140f. I reinstalled the HSF and the temp dropped to 120f. Then I replaced the retail HSF with a Golden Orb and dropped the temp to under 100f while under load.

Anyway, welcome back!

 

[KGB]

Pretender,

Welcome back!

If all you need is a NIC, I probably have a spare ISA (10Mb) hanging around.
If you want it, let me know.

 

[Anybody]

I had the same problem and replaced the heatsink with an alpha with to 32cfm fans. temp barely rises above 100f..dont forget the thermal grease

 

[Pretender]

I think I'll go with the modem idea...I didn't realize how little time it would take..since I've gotten DSL I started to think that all modems take forever to do anything.

KGBMAN: Thanks for the offer, but a) my main computer doesn't have a NIC either, b) I feel guilty taking free hardware from people, c) going to use a 56k to connect.


About the cpu temp- I'm using a golden orb, and after a few attempts at reinstalling it, re-applying thermal grease, etc, this is the best I could do: about 105F when idle, 140F when under load. I think maybe I'm applying the grease incorrectly...could someone direct me to a site which tells me how.

Alright, I think I'm getting off topic, thanks for all your help.

 

[ViRGE]

Pretender, try http://www.dansdata.com/coolers.htm, it has a small section on grese, though all you really need to know is that less is more.=P